Chapter 386 Insufficient golf skills, use your hands to make up!
Chapter 386: If you don’t have enough ball skills, you have to use your hands to make up for it!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 386: If you don’t have enough ball skills, you have to use your hands to make up for it!
Manchester City ultimately failed to maintain the 2-2 score until the end.
After Chu Zheng was injured, Guardiola quickly moved Gundogan to the midfielder position and fully retreated as there was no room for substitutions.
But unfortunately, we couldn't hold on in the end.
In the 92nd minute of the game, during injury time, Manchester City's defense in the middle was broken through by Tottenham again.
David Silva took the blame for the leak in the back line and had to bring down Alli, who was dancing on the edge of the knife, in the penalty area. The referee Marriner sentenced him to death, a set of yellow points.
Lamela then took the penalty himself.
Although Bravo guessed the direction correctly, the angle of Lamela's penalty kick was too tricky and he still drilled into the goal from the lower left corner of the goal against the inside of the post.
After the game, the media pounced on Manchester City and Guardiola like sharks that smelled blood.
"Tottenham 3-2 Manchester City, Guardiola suffered his first defeat of the season! Manchester City's Premier League winning streak ended!" - The Times
"Chu has a strained thigh muscle and is suspected of needing a month's rest!" - Kicker
"Kolarov, this may be the game he wants to forget the most. For 90 minutes, he struggled in defense and did nothing offensively! He was lost to Tottenham!
》——Sun Hug
In addition to Kolarov, two of Manchester City's four-man defense received 4 failing points.
Arsenal legend Henry was a guest commentator on Sky Sports in this game.
After the game, Henry bluntly said that if Chu Zheng had not performed well on both offense and defense, Manchester City would have definitely lost a clean sheet to Tottenham and achieved a great victory.
Henry's view was echoed by another guest Carragher.
Carragher told the camera that Chu Zheng's score for this game was low. It shouldn't be 9 points, but should be 10 out of 10.
As for Tottenham's performance in this game, Henry and Carragher also gave a very high evaluation.
Henry claimed that Tottenham's victory in this game was a victory of another kind of football.
Currently in the five major European leagues, ball-controlling style of play and Tiki-taka style of play are very popular.
The most typical representatives are Barcelona, Bayern and Manchester City. Even Manchester United has a tendency to imitate this tactic.
After Manchester United lost to Manchester City in the fourth round of the Premier League, Mourinho played Herrera and Mata in the midfield in the next three Premier League games, and his intention to control the ball was extremely obvious.
As for Tottenham, they are a completely different kind of team.
Tottenham's players are physically strong, explosive and fast, with a direct style of play and many direct passes. Coupled with one or two technical players, Pochettino has proved with facts that his tactical strategy can also be successful.
But Pochettino's tactics are not unique in Europe.
Tottenham's current playing style is very reminiscent of La Liga's great coach Diego Simeone.
Atletico Madrid has adopted this tactic in recent seasons and has achieved unprecedented success.
In the Champions League group stage last week, Atletico Madrid also defeated Bayern Munich 1-0.
In the past three seasons, the La Liga gang led by Simeone has reached the Champions League finals twice, which is enough to prove the success of this style of play.
Therefore, Guardiola's failure was not accidental, and Carragher said that Manchester City's defeat in this game was also inevitable.
With reports from major media, people are talking more and more about this battle for the top spot in the Premier League.
Among them, the report by the Manchester Evening News made Manchester City fans hate it.
The "Manchester Evening News" claimed in the report that Tottenham completely crushed Manchester City's offensive method and Pochettino was Guardiola's nemesis.
And used the word "blood collapse" to form Manchester City's defense line.
When Stones and Kolarov performed well some time ago, the English media praised Stones as the "new Ferdinand" and Kolarov as the "new Bobby Moore".
But today, Kolarov, Stones, Otamendi, including Zabaleta, who did not have a strong presence in this game, were all dragged out and beaten to death by the Manchester Evening News, and were criticized completely.
The Manchester City fans wanted to defend themselves, but they couldn't.
Because what the Manchester Evening News said is true.
With Manchester City's current style of play, when faced with a strong team like Tottenham, the defense is indeed like a paper tiger.
At the on-site post-match interview conference, when faced with questions from the media, Guardiola also very frankly admitted that Tottenham's performance today was indeed better than theirs.
"It's a tough game, we all know that, Spurs have been a very good team over the past 3 years and they have been fighting with a similar style of play today."
"Our performance today is not as good as Tottenham in all aspects. They are stronger in the competition for the second position. In the Premier League, you have to control the second position, but obviously, we did not do well enough today.
It can even be said to be a bit bad.”
"Losing is part of the game and part of our work. I never think that we will not lose. Sometimes the loss of a game will not have a decisive impact on the team's trend. I believe in my players,
This game made me discover a lot of the team's shortcomings, and he believes it will help us improve."
Guardiola had a cold face when being interviewed by reporters, but when the reporter asked him if he was satisfied with Chu Zheng's performance today, a smile appeared on his face for the first time.
"Chu played the best among all our players today. His condition is as outstanding and stable as ever. It's hard for me to imagine how we would have played without him on the court."
After attending the media conference, Guardiola rushed to the locker room in a hurry.
As soon as he arrived outside the locker room, he ran into Arteta walking out of the locker room.
"Mikel, is Chu's injury serious?" Guardiola asked very quickly, expressing his worries.
"It's not a big problem!" Arteta smiled faintly, "Max and Eduardo have just conducted a detailed inspection on Chu."
"Chu's right thigh hamstring muscle is strained. It should be caused by his long pass with the instep of his outside foot."
After finishing speaking, seeing Guardiola frowning so hard that three forehead lines appeared, Arteta continued: "But Max and Eduardo judged that the strain should not be serious."
After listening to Arteta's words, Guardiola still looked solemn.
Muscle strain is never a minor injury for football players.
The hamstring muscle is located on the back of the thigh and is one of the main knee flexor muscle groups. It is composed of biceps femoris, semitendinosus and other muscles. It is one of the muscles that is very easy to strain.
Muscle damage may seem like a minor problem, but in fact, if not handled properly, it can cause extremely serious consequences.
After a muscle strain, once the muscle fibers are torn, scarring will occur and it will be almost impossible to grow back to its original normal shape. If not handled properly, it is easy to tear and recur again, which is almost fatal to professional athletes.
Half an hour later, the entire Manchester City team flew back to Manchester on a chartered flight.
After getting off the plane, Chu Zheng was taken to Manchester Medical Center for detailed examination.
In less than an hour, Chu Zheng's test results came out, which were completely consistent with Max and Eduardo's judgments.
Chu Zheng's hamstring strain is minor and not serious. It is expected to take more than a week to fully recover.
Guardiola was relieved when he learned the result.
Because there will be two weeks of international matches next, and the injured Chu Zheng is obviously unable to play for the national team, so he has enough time to rest and recuperate.
After Chu Zheng learned about the injury assessment, he didn't take it to heart at all.
Are you kidding? His talent of "iron bones" is a joke!
That night, countless domestic fans who were concerned about Chu Zheng's injury showed their talents and saw the announcement of Chu Zheng's injury from Manchester City's official website.
When they learned that Chu Zheng had strained his hamstring and was expected to need two weeks of rest, many fans instantly felt cold.
They clearly understand how important Chu Zheng's role is on both offense and defense for the national team.
For a while, many fans couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in their hearts. Why did they think it was so difficult to qualify for the World Cup?
The only thing that makes domestic fans happy is that the opponents in these two rounds were not very strong, and Hao Xiao returned from the three-player league safely.
Moreover, one of the matches is at home. Many people feel that with the current strength of the Chinese team, winning against Syria should not be a big problem.
In this way, even if they lose to Uzbekistan in an away game in the fourth round and the Chinese team's ranking in the Group A standings drops, the gap will not be too big.
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The next day, Chu Zheng rarely overslept, and even his biological clock, which was usually on time, failed to wake him up.
Near 8 o'clock in the morning, Chu Zheng, who was sleeping soundly in bed, sneezed and woke up, and saw Zhao Dudu scratching his nostrils with his hair.
Chu Zheng rolled his eyes, directly took Zhao Dudu into his arms, caressed the tender and smooth skin on someone's back, and said with a smile: "Have you thought about it? Where to go?"
"I haven't thought about it yet!" The sleepy Zhao Dudu lay on Chu Zheng's chest and said in a lazy tone.
"How about we go to Switzerland?" Chu Zheng thought, "I heard from Kevin that there is a nice town under the Alps there, which is very suitable for vacation."
As soon as he heard Chu Zheng mention Switzerland, Zhao Dudu raised his head, his face a little moved, but when he thought that the research topic in his hand was at a critical stage, he immediately became discouraged and lay back on Chu Zheng's chest, feeling a little discouraged and said:
"Forget it, I only have three days of vacation. Once I go back and forth, I won't have much left. I'll save more!"
"Get out!" The charming Zhao Dudu glared and quickly got up and got out of bed to get dressed.
Seeing Zhao Dudu's perfect figure without any hair, Chu Zheng immediately moved his index finger.
He sat up and was about to lean over to pull the beauty back for a chat, but suddenly there was a stinging pain in his thigh, and Chu Zheng suddenly lost all thought of the pain.
In the next few days, because Zhao Dudu had to go to work, the two of them didn't go anywhere.
During the day, after Chu Zheng went to the base medical center for treatment, he would go home and read or surf the Internet. At night, he would accompany Zhao Dudu Niwai, who was off work, to watch TV dramas on the sofa.
In a blink of an eye, it is October 6th, the match day between the Chinese team and Syria, which has come all the way.
At 19:45 pm BJ time, the game started on time.
Due to the absence of Chu Zheng in this game, Gao Hongbo adopted a classical 442 formation with balanced offense and defense.
Hao Xiao, Niu Benben and Jiang Lai all started.
But after the game started, Chu Zheng frowned more and more.
Chu Zheng could see that Gao Hongbo was still the same as in the previous two rounds, emphasizing one-shot kick, using running to press Syria, and hitting the opponent's gaps.
This tactical idea is correct in Chu Zheng's opinion.
But the problem is also obvious. Under Syria's high-intensity physical confrontation, the success rate of a kick is not very high, which makes the Chinese team's offense unable to flow smoothly.
The Syrian side also showed limited performance and was not accustomed to the local environment. The team's defense was good, but in Chu Zheng's offensive end, it looked like a fly on the brow.
After watching the first half, Chu Zheng had a vague feeling that this should be a draw.
Soon, the second half of the game started. As Chu Zheng expected, the situation was still deadlocked. Neither the Chinese team nor Syria got a good chance.
But soon came the famous scene that made Chu Zheng, Zhao Dudu and countless fans dumbfounded and almost died from laughter.
In the 78th minute of the game, the Chinese team's top arc went to the right of the restricted area in front of the end line.
Niu Benben accurately predicted Syria's right flank and succeeded in attacking.
But he failed to stop the ball.
The ball hit his foot and continued to roll forward.
Niu Benben reacted quickly, continued to pursue, stretched out his right foot and stepped on the ball back from Syrian forward Mubayed.
Then Niu Benben turned around and leaned against Mubayed with his body, protecting the ball very smartly.
Then an outrageous scene took place.
In full view of everyone, Niu Benben bent down and pulled the ball to the left with his left hand, completing a manual version of the Marseille slalom.
After successfully trapping Mubayed behind him, Niu Benben quickly showed his strengths and directly launched the attack with a long pass.
In the middle circle, Jiang Lai started at the right time and successfully crushed Syria's overly advanced defense line with absolute speed.
Facing the Syrian goalkeeper's attack, Jiang Lai was extremely calm and directly took the ball over the Syrian goalkeeper's head, and then calmly pushed the ball into the empty goal.
Seeing the birth of this goal, Chu Zheng's eyes went straight and he felt bad!
"Hahahahaha!!" Zhao Dudu fell into Chu Zheng's arms and laughed until tears came out after witnessing Niu Benben's sexy moves.
After Chu Zheng reacted, he couldn't laugh or cry, and said: "I'm not good at playing football, so I have to do it with my hands!"
He was very happy that the team scored a goal, but Chu Zheng felt that it was outrageous that the referee was not far behind the two of them when Niu Benben completed the hand-pulled Marseille spin, but the referee did not see the result.
Soon the Syrian players surrounded the referee to protest.
However, after communicating with the linesman who also did not see it, the referee insisted that the Chinese team's goal was valid.
However, it was a pity that Niu Benben failed to hold on to the victory in the end, allowing Syria to equalize the score with a corner kick in the 86th minute.
